Oil, natural gas and coal are known as fossil fuels. They are extremely useful substances and humans spend lots of time and energy to extract them from the earth. But why are they called fossil fuels, when and how did they form? In an town or village in Ireland on a cool evening there is… Continue reading How oil is formed
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The Holocene: from the Ice Age to the Age of Rice
Every day history is being made. This is true for geology as well. Out at sea layers of sand or mud are being laid down that will become the geological records of the future. The period of geological time that we are in right now is called the Holocene epoch, which is part of the… Continue reading The Holocene: from the Ice Age to the Age of Rice
The geological history of the earth
To understand the past, we divide history into different pieces, some big, some small. Human history has been divided into Ages, (e.g. Stone Age, Bronze Age) then smaller periods like Dynasties, then by the reigns of single rulers. Geologists deal with much longer periods of time, but they divide the history of the Earth in… Continue reading The geological history of the earth